Combined dumb-bell, indian club, and pulling or swinging bar.



i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'FRANK R. BUCK, oF sAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED DUMB-BELL, INDIAN CLUB, AND PULLING 0R SWINGING BAR.

SPECIFICA-.'IION forming pare of Letters Patent No. 708,313, dated september 2, 1902.

l I 1 Application'iiled December 10, 1901. Serial No. 85,375. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

l Beit knownthat I, FRANK R. BUCK, a ci ti- .zen of the United States,residing at San Francisco,in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Dumb- Bell, Indian'Club, and Pulling or Swinging Bar, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to an improved coinxo bined bumb-bell, Indian club, and pulling or swinging bar, theobject of my invention being to provide a device 4which can be used in alarge number of 'exercises for physical development, so as to` avoid the expense en- "i n x 5 tailed by providing a separate device for each varietyof lexercise and also the large amount of space requiredffor'such separate devices.

vIn the accompanying drawing the figure is .f a side elevation of my improved device.

'f V'zo Referring to the'drawing, it will -be seen that the device consists of a bar l of suitable length, as hereinafter specified, said bar havngi three hand-grips 2 thereon, said handgripswbeing..separated from each other and .also ibeing terminated' by knobs, bands, or

I- ,f 'rings 3 to prevent slipping of the hands. It will thns'be seen that in the middle portion of the ybar there are two pairs of adjacent knobs, rings, or bands, and it will be-further l observed that the bands or rings of each pair are separated by a groove 4 of suitable width and sectional contour to receive a strong cord or small rope..

This device may be employed in a large y. number of physical exercises, of which the lfollowingmay be particularly mentioned: First, the' device 4may be used as`an Indian club, the exerciser grasping the bar at one endandusing the'same in the manner com- 4o` mon with'Indian clubs. Secondly, the device` i may be used as -a bumb-bell, the exerciser holding the same bythe middle grip. Thirdly, the device may be used in what are known 'as back-bracing exercises, in which the gymnast takes hold of the two end gripsrof the device with. both hands .and passes the samebverhisfhead to a more orless elevated position at the back thereof and in other positions behind the back. Fourthly, the device 5o is very useful for combined exercises by an adultI and child, in which the adult holds vthe central gripvwith one hand while the child holds the terminal grips with both 'hands and strives to turn the bar about the hand of the adult, the adult resisting such turning movement. Fifthly, the device may be used in tugof-war exercises, in which an adult takes hold of the central grip with one hand while one child takes hold of the terminal hand-grips with both hands and other children take hold of the first child, as in the gaine of tug-of-iwar.

4cured to the bar around the grooves 4 and being passed around a hook in a door-jamb or other suitable support. Eighthly, the bar may be used as a fixed bar from which to swing by suspending the bar from the top jamb of a door by means of hooks passed underneath the grooves 4.

Various other modes of using the device for exercising purposes will suggest .them selves.

The bar may be made of any convenient and desirable size, according to the size and strength of the person using it; but for general use it will be found that a bar eighteen .inches long will be suitable for adults and a bar fifteen inches long will be suitable for children.

The device may be made of either wood, metal, hard rubber, or any other suitable material, or it may be made partly of one material and partly of another. When made of hard wood, the device is neat, light, simple,

strong, and durable and with ordinary care will last a lifetime; also, from a sanitary point it is easily kept clean, as it comprises no fabric and has no small grooves or crevices to harbor the germs of diseases.

I claim- 1. A combination dumb-bell, Indian club, and pulling or swinging bar, comprising a bar having formed thereon a central handgrip and two terminal hand-grips andhaving also formed thereon terminal knobsl on the I outside ofthe terminal hand-grips, and bands separating the te'rinnal hand-grips from the central hand-grip, said knobs -and bands be ing all im movablysecured on the bar at equal intervals of substantiallya hands breadth and each such interval' of the bar being free or unobstructed throughout its entire len'gth,'

to aiord a hand-grip over the Whole of said interval, substantially as described.'

2. A combination dumb-bell, Indian club', and pulling or swinging bar, comprising a bar havinglr formedlthereon a central handgrip and two terinral hand-grips; Said n-4V tral hand-grip being separated from the terminal handfgrips by pairs of -bands,the bands of eachpair beingrigid1y secured to each other, Wbut separated by a groove suitable for receiving aroord or small rope, substantially asdescribed;

' In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- ,nesses.Av f i 'FRANK RrBUCK.

lVitnesses f l eFmmos M. WRIGHT, 

